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Mental Health
Updated 4/30/20
We are continuously adding content as we receive it. Please send us any resource or links that may benefit our Hispanic/Latino Catholic Community (English and Spanish) and the Catholic community at large.
Mental Health resources during COVID-19
English
- Senior’s Guide to Mental Health During COVID-19
- Beating the quarantine blues: 5 ways to help your family cope while you’re all cooped up – OSV News
- Care for Your Anxiety – Shine
- Helping Children and Teens Cope with Anxiety About Covid-19 – Seattle Children’s
- Roy Petitfils.com and Helping Teens with Anxiety (Facebook recording) – Therapist at Pax Renewal Center, focused on teens
- Explaining coronavirus to young or autistic kids and addressing emotions – English, Spanish and other languages available
- Explaining coronavirus to young kids and addressing emotions – multiple languages available!
- Comic Exploring the new coronavirus
- Catholic During COVID-19 – Leah Murphy, Life Teen
- Help students overcome their fears of coronavirus – Greg Stier blog post
- Ave Maria Press– four webinars on stress, anxiety, and mental health
- Coping with COVID-19 Anxiety – California Catholic Conference
- Seven ways to manage ‘COVID Stress Syndrome’ –OSV
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention – Mental Health and COVID-19
- Practical Peace: 30 Days to Calm in Time of Uncertainty – Julia Hogan, a licensed psychotherapist, shares practical ways to actively live out peace in times of great uncertainty.
- How To Help A Child Struggling With Anxiety – NPR
- Catholic Apostolate Center Blog: The 14 Holy Helpers: Turning to the Saints During the Coronavirus, He Remains: A Reflection During the Coronavirus Pandemic, Creating an Inner Monastery During the Coronavirus Pandemic, Mental Health and Coronavirus
Spanish
- Explicando el coronavirus a los niños pequeños o autistas y hablar de las emociones
- Monjas de clausura nos dan sus tips para tener una cuarentena alegre
- Centro del Apostolado Católico – artículos del blog: Presionando durante la sequedad espiritual, Prepárate para el llamado, Inhala, Exhala
- Tácticas caseras para evitar el stress y crear un clima familiar agradable-Dra. Dora Tobar
Masses Online
List of Masses being streamed online during COVID-19
Prayer Resources
Links to prayers for Catholics, parents, and pastoral leaders
Youth & Young Adults
Resources for pastoral juvenil, youth ministry, young adult ministry, and campus ministry
Mental Health
Mental Health resources during COVID-19
Online Prayer Opportunities
Adoration, praise & worship, praying the rosary, and Stations of the Cross
Parent Resources
Online resources for Catholic Parents
Children
Resources for Children during COVID-19
Tools for Ministering Online
Software and resources to help pastoral ministers move their ministries online.
Resources
Resources for Prayer, Worship and Mass in the Home
Faith Formation
Resources for Directors of Faith Formation, Catechists and Pastoral Leaders
Persons with Disabilities
Resources for Persons with Disabilities
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